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Complicating ‘Victimhood’ In Diaspora Studies: The Saga of Tamils In Exile
As an interdisciplinary field, Diaspora Studies has drawn from many disciplines, including sociology, especially from its debates on migration, structure and agency. This lecture draws on my ethnographic fieldwork on the Sri Lankan Tamils in Germany. It analyses their transition following the civil war in Sri Lanka, from being refugee immigrants to becoming a successful diaspora, well integrated economically, yet holding a powerful identity as Tamil nationalists. Fuelled by political commitment and digital connectivity, their innovative strategies as a diaspora have contributed to the propagation of the Tamil cause. Their example extends and complicates the classic notion of ‘victim diaspora’, demonstrating the simultaneity of victimhood and agency.
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Young Adult Depression and Anxiety Linked to Social Media Use: Assessment and Treatment
Studies suggest that more 30% of college students are currently depressed. A small but growing body of literature suggests that young adults’ social media use correlates with their depressive and anxious symptomology. As many as 90% of young adults use social media currently, compared to just 12.5% in 2005. Further, more than a quarter of college students report spending at least six hours per week on social media, compared to only 18.9% in 2007. Smartphone use within young adult populations also is extremely high: estimates of undergraduate smartphone ownership appear to be as high as 97%. Collectively, these trends suggest that social media and smartphones play an integral role in the routines and culture of young adults. The authors present the existing research linking social media use with depression and anxiety and utilize a case study to illuminate the relationship between young adult depression, anxiety, and social media use. The article provides clear recommendations for the assessment and treatment of social media use in depressed and anxious young adults.
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Shades of Grey
[...]Carnatic concert music is one among a plethora of rich art forms in this country. [...]the current explosion of performing arts in popular culture has influenced audience tastes and shifted power dynamics between genres; for instance, it is no longer infra dig among the intellectual elite to enjoy film songs. [...]unlike Krishna, I must begin with the caveat that I do not see the Carnatic concert world as especially powerful and influential, except in its own eyes. [...]to musical structure and content, theorists as well as practitioners, with the exception of Krishna, give scant attention to questions of the social composition of and access and opportunity for students, performers and audiences. The social composition and cultural context of this music in the precolonial era, based on the non-Brahmin devadasi tradition and patronage from temple, court and non-Brahmin and Brahmin elites; the British dilemma of which traditional art forms to endorse and which to denounce, depending on whether the Orientalist's fascination for Indian antiquity or the Victorian's prudery or the colonialist's self-interest prevailed; the response to colonialism from the colony in the form of reform and nationalism and these movements' agendas and social compositions; post-independence Nehruvian nation-building and the role envisioned for the classical arts-all these have a bearing on the present and how we tackle it.
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Crossing the Vindhyas
Popular reactions say that relative to Hindustani music, Carnatic, as practised today, privileges vocal over instrumental music; gives importance to lyrics, which largely being in Telugu, Tamil and Sanskrit, are understood by few; it foregrounds the composition, and so musicians seemingly devote more energy on accurate reproduction than on manodharma, or improvisation; it encourages the arithmetic aspects of rhythm to overshadow melody; and finally, it has a narrow social base of performers and listeners, which makes it exclusive and excluding. [...]the historical record shows that Brahmin dominance is recent-a product of modernity via British colonialism, which conferred social and economic mobility on select groups. [...]the annual Chennai music festival-whose 91st edition took place this December-with its record number of concerts, vast array of brilliant musicians and intense self-absorption of the musical community is only a specific aspect of the genre. With long, immersive training, the cultivated nature of classical music recedes from the consciousness of performers and audiences alike. [...]the sounds of Carnatic music, fused and unfused, have crossed the oceans to concert halls and universities of the West in a small but significant manner.
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Intra-community Dissent and Dialogue: The Bombay Parsis and the Zoroastrian Diaspora
This article explores the tension between the local and transnational communities through a discussion of the Bombay Parsis and their relationship with the Zoroastrian diaspora in the West. It demonstrates how developments in both locations mutually interact and shape changes in perceptions and attitudes. Current formulations of 'community' stress its harmony and unity. The Parsi Zoroastrian case, in contrast, suggests that internal dissent is a positive feature influencing the content of 'community'. In this contestation, positions are broadly classified as 'conservative' versus 'liberal' in the Mumbai context, and 'traditionalist' versus 'fundamentalist' in the diaspora. The article tracks the debates and their interlinkages, through the various formal and informal fora in which they are expressed.
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